Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Baltimore has been a
tinderbox for many years waiting for the right moment to combust. That moment
came when Freddie Gray died. His horrific death came while he was in police
custody. As a result of this senseless tragedy emotions of city residents could
not be contained. Many took to the streets in peaceful protests. Unfortunately
many more used this as an opportunity to loot, vandalize and pillage throughout
the city. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/us/baltimore-riots/index.html Baltimore
police were overwhelmed with the level of hostility embedded in the crowds
confronting them. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake assuaged the mobs by requesting
the police stand back allowing looters to destroy private property. She later
back tracked on this policy when interviewed by the media noting her statements
were taken out of context. City Hall and the police have been at odds
concerning policing techniques for years. The current mayor has brought this
controversy to a new level. Mayor Blake’s soft stance on crime and her
inadequate support for the police have contributed to the riots now taking
place in Baltimore.

Over the last several days
life in Baltimore has come to a near standstill. The media’s false assumption that
Mr. Gray’s death is responsible for all the chaos now viewed nightly is naïve
at best. Baltimore has had an epidemic of crime for decades. Though city
officials and the left wing press attempt to hide Baltimore’s problems behind
smiling faces the facts bear out it is one of the most dangerous cities in
America. http://www.examiner.com/article/baltimore-unsafe-at-any-speed After many nights of violent protests Baltimore’s
Mayor finally conceded she could not manage the rioting that touched her city.
She requested Governor Larry Hogan to call up the National Guard. Governor
Hogan immediately called the Guard into force wondering aloud why Mayor Blake
waited until the city was immersed in chaos. Resources from other jurisdictions
within and outside Maryland have also agreed to help in the effort to quell the
rioting. These protectors of the public must ask themselves is the risk worth
the effort.

Interviewed on the streets
protesters provide various views why violence has erupted in their city. Some
of their reasoning is amorphous and garbled.Others note police have no respect for community members therefore the
violence is necessary to shake them up. From this perspective looting is the
prime objective not police brutality as their leaders have stated.Hostilities
will not abate as along as the Mayor and City Council pander to those who
commit crimes. Many believe agitators have come a distance to push their own
agenda: which is complete disruption of city services. If that is the case they
did not need to do much. Arrests have been kept to minimum to curry favor with
the rioters. Mayor Blake needs to get her act together or Baltimore will become
the Detroit of the East Coast.

Mark Davis MD, President
of Davis Writing Services. Author of Demons of Democracy and Obamacare: Dead on
Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Bad news travels fast.
Hillary Clinton, the immortal, has entered the fray for the 2016 Democrat
presidential nomination.http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-2016-election-presidential-launch-116888.html
The dust from Hillary’s last attempt has not fully settled into the shadows,
yet her second run is fully underway. On this go around her focus is to connect
with the common man. The latter is so comical one must partition reality from
the factual insanity from which it is derived. Hillary has stepped away from
the rarified domain in which she lives to give the appearance she cares about
the “little people.” Her announcement came in the form of a website release not
in a gathering of prospective voters. Her last news conference was a disaster.
No one can blame her for staying miles away from the nearest journalist.
Hillary will take her campaign on the road to small venues with pre-selected
audiences. Her admirers will flood the media with positive attributions but
those at a distance will question the very basis of her candidacy. With few
competitors on the Democrat side vying for the nomination Mrs. Clinton appears
to have a clear path to her goal. Yet the drum beats for more balance in her
party and we may soon see others of note enter the political cauldron.

Hillary Clinton craves
power, prestige and most of all money. During her tenure as Secretary of State
many suspect she padded her own pockets via the Clinton Foundation. While
representing American interests in the Middle East her Foundation took in large
sums from countries less than friendly to the United States. Some believe a
quid pro quo was involved. She had defended the work of the Foundation yet the
stench of duplicity surrounds her and the private foundation that bears her
name.

Equally as bad was Hillary’s
management of emails during her reign as Secretary of State. Hillary, similar
to Obama, believes she is above regulations and laws which govern the rest of
us. When the Benghazi Committee requested her emails none were forthcoming.
Why? She utilized a private computer server instead of one issued to her as
Secretary of State. These recent revelations were made worse when it was
discovered that her private server emails were erased. Hillary has refused to
turn over this server. This controversy will not abate as the 2016 campaign
moves forward. What is Hillary trying to hide?

With Hillary’s current
attempts to galvanize support for a very iffy presidential campaign the
public’s introspective eye will follow her everywhere.http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-hillary-clinton-campaign-iowa-2016-20150414-story.html
The Clintons represent a time that has passed. Each of them is saddled with
burdens decades old which haunts every appearance they make. Though Hillary has
no real competition from potential Democrat rivals Martin O’Malley and Joseph
Biden inspirational voices on the Republican side may drown hers out. The shock
of Mrs. Clinton attempting to relate to the “common man” defines exactly who
she is. She is a dispirited individual who will malign the system in any manner
which brings her closer to the Oval Office. I believe she is misreading the
political tea leaves. Her candidacy is doomed from the start because its
foundations are layered with paper not cement. For an extremely intelligent
woman she appears to move through life with blinders on. When the going gets
tough she will abandon her presidential ambitions and return to presenting half-hearted
speeches at $450,000 each. Until then her universe of one may end sooner than
later for a presidential run that was never meant to be.

Mark Davis MD, President
of Davis Writing Services. Author of Demons of Democracy, Obamacare: Dead on
Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster and the forthcoming book: Sexual
Predilections of the Political Mind.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Nightmares never leave us.
Attached to our psyches they wait for the signal to remerge. As a child coming
of age in the 1960s the fear of nuclear annihilation was ever present in the
media. This fear was represented by nuclear mushroom clouds expanding across
placid skies. Reality clashed with this hypothetical when Russian missile
placements were observed on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy, fearing the
worst, took immediate action to diffuse this communist nation’s encroachment
into the Western Hemisphere. Without this strong President’s leadership the beginnings
of World War Three would have been a few steps away. Fifty years later this
country is once again battling for its future.

Scattered across the
Iranian landscape are dozens of facilities established for one end purpose, enrichment
of Uranium for bombs.http://www.jpost.com/International/Die-Welt-Iran-building-rocket-bases-in-Venezuela
Utilizing nearly 20,000 centrifuges Iranian workers are closing in on their
ultimate goal. America, not fully cognizant of Iran’s weapons status, is
blindly negotiating a treaty to curtail a program that may have already come to
fruition. John Kerry, the present Secretary of State, back stabbed his fellow
Vietnam Vets during his formative years by testifying against them before
Congress. Trust is not one of Kerry’s strong points. Forty years later he is
the lead negotiator for a treaty with Iran. With a lack of transparency Kerry
and Obama have released little on the framework of this proposed treaty. Speculation
is Obama desperately wants this treaty no matter who he throws under the
literal bus. In the event this is a legacy moment for the Commander-in-Chief he
has failed. Instead Obama is writing an epitaph for the America he hates and
the Israel he loathes.

Reports of Iranian missile
placements in Venezuela have been carried by foreign news sources. http://www.jpost.com/International/Die-Welt-Iran-building-rocket-bases-in-Venezuela
American media has been quiescent on this subject. Once operational these missiles
could reach continental United States in a matter of minutes. With Iran’s rapid
development of fissionable material these missiles could be tipped with
warheads which can decimate American cities on a whim. Essentially the Cuban
Missile crisis has come to the 21st century. Obama, oblivious to the
Constitution, does not have the courage to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Striking
are the differences in leadership between John Kennedy and Barack Obama.
Kennedy led us away from a nuclear holocaust. Obama is leading us towards one. Perhaps
that was the plan from day one. When Obama took the oath of office in 2009 he
swore to uphold the Constitution and defend America. From this small perch
Obama’s real motives were to dismantle American institutions, traditions and its
industrial base. He is on his way to succeeding with these goals. My recommendation
is build a Civil Defense shelter because Iran and others are coming our way.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Discrimination is an aperture through which we perceive variances in people, actions, institutions and traditions. Through subtle differentiation choices are made which solidify which routes we take on our paths from alpha to omega. Choices made may not always be fair and well considered but they must be brought to fruition or we stand still. Inherent risks in life embody this discriminatory function for without it life would be the same for all of us.